Skrillex

A major figure of the dance music landscape of the early 2010s, Skrillex enjoyed a meteoric rise from relative obscurity on the Los Angeles club scene to the top of the electronica charts with such hi...
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Disco stalwart Giorgio Moroder will be touring Australia with Kylie Minogue. The dance music pioneer will support Kylie when she returns home to tour later this year (15).
The dates will coincide with the release of 74 Is The New 24, Moroder's first album in three decades, which features Minogue along with Charli XCX, Sia and Britney Spears, among others.
Moroder is enjoying a career resurgence after appearing on Daft Punk's 2013 album Random Access Memories. He's currently working on a new videogame soundtrack and hopes to team up with electronic dance music superstar Skrillex.

Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder is hoping to team up with electronic dance music superstar Skrillex to create new music for a video game. The two stars are reportedly planning to work together on a new Tron game.

Skrillex's birthday party in Los Angeles was shut down by fire marshals after the venue became overcrowded. The DJ turned 27 on Thursday (15Jan15) and he celebrated by hosting a bash at L.A. venue the Million Dollar Theatre for around 500 guests including his ex-girlfriend, British singer Ellie Goulding, as well as actress Tara Reid and fellow dance star Diplo.
However, the party was cut short by officials amid safety fears, according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
The publication reports the bash, which featured a puppeteer and a magician, was shut down early by fire marshals because the venue was over capacity.

A host of stars including Lorde, Rick Astley, Skrillex and Gotye have come together to record a comedy skit for an Australian radio show which is taking the Internet by storm. In the sketch, a huge group of stars, also including Steve Aoki, Megan Washington, Courtney Barnett and Angus & Julia Stone, are brought together in a music studio to write a theme song for the Triple J radio network's Hottest 100 poll, but they struggle to come up with any usable ideas.
Lorde walks out and Astley annoys the group by reciting the lyrics of his 1980s hit Never Gonna Give You Up, prompting a mass exit and leaving Gotye alone strumming a Ukulele. The clip ends with Riptide hitmaker Vance Joy attempting to make contact via Skype while the studio sits dark and empty.

Jack White, Pharrell Williams and Calvin Harris are among the superstar musicians who have been recruited to headline the upcoming Lollapalooza festivals in South America. White and Harris will be joined by the likes of Kings of Leon, Skrillex, Robert Plant, the Smashing Pumpkins, Kasabian and Bastille, as well as Chilean artists such as Congreso, Jorge Gonzalez and Fernando Milagros for Lollapalooza Chile, which will take place on 14-15 March (15) at O'Higgins Park in Santiago.
The second edition of Lollapalooza Argentina will be held in Buenos Aires on 21-22 March (15), with Williams joining the line-up featured in Chile, along with popular Argentinian musicians Pedro Aznar, Zero Kill and Maxi Trusso.
Their festival circuit in South America will end in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 28-29 March (15) at Autodromo de Interlagos, with added acts including Marina and the Diamonds and Brazilian artists Pitty and Banda do Mar also taking the stage.
Lollapalooza's traditional Chicago, Illinois festival will take place on 31 July (15) to 2 August (15), and the show will expand to Berlin, Germany in September (15).

A concert by dance music star Skrillex was marred when 16 fans were hospitalised after taking drugs. Paramedics treated several concert-goers at the show in at Chicago's Navy Pier venue on Saturday (18Oct14).
It is not known what condition the victims were in or what substances they had consumed.
Andrew Bazos, security chief for the show's promoters SFX, tells NBC Chicago, "They're young, and they're often irresponsible."
A spokesman for SFX insisted the promoters do all they can to curb drug-taking at concerts, adding, "We're very strict at the doors so that people don't bring bad things in."

Maroon 5 have added their name to the list of end of year party hosts after signing up to ring in 2015 from Las Vegas. The rockers will join Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett among the big draws in Sin City on 31 December (14).
Adam Levine's band will also perform at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on 30 December (14).
Meanwhile, Sir Elton John, Diplo, Skrillex and Erasure are among the acts booking New Year's Eve shows in New York.

Lady Gaga has confirmed she will ring in 2015 with Tony Bennett in Las Vegas. The odd couple, who topped the U.S. charts with their standards album Cheek to Cheek last week (ends03Oct14), have been booked to perform at The Cosmopolitan casino on New Year's Eve (31Dec14).
Gaga, who, at 28 is 60 years younger than the crooner, says, "I can't wait to kick off 2015 cheek to cheek with the legendary Mr. Tony Bennett. New Year's celebrations are about cherishing family, friendship, and the future - three things this man has taught me much about."
The pair joins Sir Elton John, Diplo, Skrillex and Erasure among the acts booking New Year's Eve shows in America.

New York is going to be the place to be this New Year's Eve (31Dec14) - as well as the traditional festivities in Times Square, the city will feature end-of-2014 gigs from Diplo and Skrillex, who will ring in 2015 at Madison Square Garden, Sir Elton John, who will play his first Big Apple New Year's show at the Barclays Center and Erasure, who will perform at Terminal 5.

Superproducer Diplo and dance DJ Skrillex are teaming up for a joint New Year's Eve party at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden. The music superstars are co-headlining a concert on 31 December (14) and ringing in 2015 at the Manhattan arena.
It won't be the first time Diplo and Skrillex have joined forces - they recently created electronic dance duo Jack U, and are working on a mixtape together.
They teased fans by debuting the first single from the upcoming record with a track called Take U There featuring pop singer Kiesza last month (Aug14).

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A major figure of the dance music landscape of the early 2010s, Skrillex enjoyed a meteoric rise from relative obscurity on the Los Angeles club scene to the top of the electronica charts with such high-intensity EP releases as <i>Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites</i> (2010) and <i>Bangarang</i> (2012). After a brief tenure as singer for the punk group From First to Last, Skrillex delved into electronic music, where his sonic approach - a heart-stopping fusion of catchy melodies that careened against shuddering bass lines - quickly won him favor among the genre's listeners and observers. His second EP, <i>Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites</i>, solidified his star status by capturing a Grammy Award, while his fourth EP, <i>Bangarang</i>, underscored his acceptance in the mainstream by breaking into the Top 20 on the pop charts. Within a period of just three years, Skrillex - along with his DJ peer Deadmau5 - had become one of the world's foremost DJs, a hard-fought position in the relentlessly protean field of dance music.